Attribution Form

Section 1: General Demographic Information

Please enter your username.

How old are you?

Where do you currently live?
Include State/Province/Region and Country separated by a comma.
DO NOT include your personal address
Example: Minnesota, USA

Do you identify as a part of the Mankon diaspora?

Section 2: General Language History

What language(s) do you speak?

What language(s) do you currently speak most often?

What language(s) do/did you speak with your parents growing up?

Section 3: Mankon Language History

How long have you spoken Mankon?

How did you learn Mankon?

How proficient are you at speaking Mankon? (Scale 1-5)

  • 1 - No experience speaking Mankon
  • 2 - Able to speak basic words and simple phrases
  • 3 - Able to speak with some assistance on comprehension
  • 4 - Second-Language Fluent Speaker
  • 5 - Native Speaker

How proficient are you at writing Mankon? (Scale 1-5)

  • 1 - No experience writing Mankon
  • 2 - Able to write with assistance
  • 3 - Able to write with occasional support
  • 4 - Able to write with minimal support
  • 5 - Able to write independently

How proficient are you at reading Mankon? (Scale 1-5)

  • 1 - No experience reading Mankon
  • 2 - Able to read basic words and simple phrases
  • 3 - Able to read with some assistance on comprehension
  • 4 - Able to read independently, slowly, with minimal difficulty
  • 5 - Able to read independently with ease

Section 4: Contact and Consent

Please read the following section carefully before checking any boxes.

Data Ownership and Licensing

Recordings might be associated with your name and the general demographic information you provide. This type of acknowledgement/authorship is an important ethical practice in the linguistics field; The Mankon Dictionary's consent process is written to give you full control over whether your recorded speech is attributed to you by name. This practice is in accordance with guidelines from the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), which states, “Research participants have the right to control whether their actions are recorded in such a way that they can be connected with their personal identity” and recognizes that ownership and attribution of language use by speakers is a key part of research ethics in our field.
As a Mankon speaker, you retain ownership of your language data, and license usage rights for others using a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - human-readable license text; Legal License text. This license allows people to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

    • Under the following conditions:
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
    NonCommercial — the material may not be used for commercial purposes.
    Whom do I contact if I have questions, concerns or feedback about my experience?
    This research has been reviewed and approved by an IRB within the Human Research Protections Program (HRPP) at the University of Minnesota. To share feedback privately with the HRPP about your experience or treatment, call the Research Participants' Advocate Line at 612-625-1650 (Toll Free: 1-888-224-8636) or go to z.umn.edu/participants. You are encouraged to contact the HRPP if:

  • Your questions, concerns, or complaints are not being answered by the research team.
  • You cannot reach the research team.
  • You want to talk to someone besides the research team.
  • You have questions about your rights as a research participant
  • You want to get information or provide input about this research.

    • Agreement & Use of Mankon Language Data

    The following items are optional, meaning that you do not have to agree to it in order to participate in this project. Please indicate your consent by checking the boxes.

    For questions about research appointments, the research study, research results, or other concerns, contact the researcher Dana Kenney-Lillejord - Institute of Linguistics - kenny130@umn.edu - 763-232-9392

    Your typed signature documents your agreement to participate in this research project according to the terms indicated above, and indicates your understanding that you can withdraw from participation at any time.

    Sign below by typing your full name.

    If you are interested in contributing in a larger capacity, let us know how we can reach out to you! (Optional)